admiralty islands
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.40 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the south Pacific Ocean, belonging to Papua New Guinea.
Etymology
Named by Philip Carteret in 1767, presumably honoring the Admiralty, which commanded the British Royal Navy at the time.